BASSPACE

Witold Szczurek is a very talented Polish bass player who has been in a number of bands over the years. He's also released many solo albums and this is his debut from 1984. He played double bass and acoustic bass here along with bowed bass. A four piece band of bass, drums, guitar and vocals(on 2 songs) with Witold composing and arranging the music. By the way Witold has an alias in Witold Rek.

I was so disappointed with this when I visited it at the end of doing my "best of" Jazz and related list several years ago, actually saving this for the end because I was so excited to spend some time with it. Man I was disappointed especially when I saw this tagged with Zeuhl and hey it's an album created by a bass player and I love bass but not doing my homework here as I'm not big on acoustic bass or double bass. But I like the bowed bass of course bringing melancholy to the fore. But this album is so mellow, surprisingly so. The Zeuhl tag is for the track "Hey, Hullo" which sounds like a MAGMA outtake but that's not enough to save the day here at least not in my music world.

Maybe my expectations were unrealistic as I've seen some high ratings for this but "Basspace" will always be an album that I look at as one that let me down.